17-485: CADC could refer to: United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit District of Columbia Court of Appeals Central Air Data Computer Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor Canadian Astronomy Data Centre Chakma Autonomous District Council , India Comprehensive Area Development Corporation , India, West Bengal Topics referred to by
34-542: A nominee's state are sent a blue slip in which they may submit a favorable or unfavorable opinion of a nominee. They may also choose not to return a blue slip. The Senate Judiciary Committee takes blue slips into consideration when deciding whether or not to recommend that the Senate confirm a nominee. A report issued by the Congressional Research Service in 2003 defines six periods in the use of
51-401: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (in case citations , D.C. Cir. ) is one of the thirteen United States Courts of Appeals . It has the smallest geographical jurisdiction of any of
68-435: Is filled by the judge highest in seniority among the group of qualified judges, with seniority determined first by commission date, then by age. The chief judge serves for a term of seven years, or until age 70, whichever occurs first. If no judge qualifies to be chief, the youngest judge over the age of 65 who has served on the court for at least one year shall act as chief until another judge qualifies. If no judge has served on
85-481: Is filled by the next circuit judge appointed by the president . Blue slip (U.S. Senate) In the Senate , a blue slip is a slip on which the senators from the state of residence of a federal judicial nominee give an opinion on the nominee. In the Senate, a blue slip is an opinion written by a senator from the state where a federal judicial nominee resides. Both senators from
102-537: The Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, it had a chief justice, and the other judges were called associate justices, which was similar to the structure of the Supreme Court. The chief justiceship was a separate seat: the president would appoint the chief justice, and that person would stay chief justice until he left the court. On June 25, 1948, 62 Stat. 869 and 62 Stat. 985 became law. These acts made
119-524: The D.C. Circuit before their appointments to the Supreme Court. Because the D.C. Circuit does not represent any state, confirmation of nominees can be procedurally and practically easier than for nominees to the Courts of Appeals for the other geographical districts, as home-state senators have historically been able to hold up confirmation through the blue slip process. As of January 16, 2024 : When Congress established this court in 1893 as
136-542: The District of Columbia, it tends to be the main federal appellate court for issues of U.S. administrative law and constitutional law . Four of the nine current Supreme Court justices were previously judges on the D.C. Circuit: Chief Justice John Roberts and associate justices Clarence Thomas , Brett Kavanaugh , and Ketanji Brown Jackson . Past justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg , Antonin Scalia , Warren E. Burger , Fred M. Vinson , and Wiley Blount Rutledge also served on
153-468: The U.S. courts of appeals, and it covers only the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia . It meets at the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington, DC . The D.C. Circuit is often considered to be second only to the U.S. Supreme Court in status and prestige, and it is sometimes unofficially termed "the second highest court in the land". Because its jurisdiction covers
170-641: The blue slip by the Senate: Since 2003, blue slip policy has changed several more times, as follows: In October 2017, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that he believed blue slips should not prevent committee action on a nominee. In November 2017, the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee , Chuck Grassley , announced that the committee would hold hearings for David Stras and Kyle Duncan . Stras's hearing
187-413: The chief justice a chief judge. In 1954, another law, 68 Stat. 1245, clarified what was implicit in those laws: that the chief judgeship was not a mere renaming of the position but a change in its status that made it the same as the chief judge of other inferior courts. Chief judges have administrative responsibilities with respect to their circuits, and preside over any panel on which they serve, unless
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#1732772928072204-478: The circuit justice (the Supreme Court justice responsible for the circuit) is also on the panel. Unlike the Supreme Court, where one justice is specifically nominated to be chief, the office of chief judge rotates among the circuit judges. To be chief, a judge must have been in active service on the court for at least one year, be under the age of 65, and have not previously served as chief judge. A vacancy
221-628: The court for more than a year, the most senior judge shall act as chief. Judges can forfeit or resign their chief judgeship or acting chief judgeship while retaining their active status as a circuit judge. When the office was created in 1948, the chief judge was the longest-serving judge who had not elected to retire, on what has since 1958 been known as senior status , or declined to serve as chief judge. After August 6, 1959, judges could not become or remain chief after turning 70 years old. The current rules have been in operation since October 1, 1982. The court has eleven seats for active judges after
238-489: The elimination of Seat 8 under the Court Security Improvement Act of 2007. The seat that was originally the chief justiceship is numbered as Seat 1; the other seats are numbered in order of their creation. If seats were established simultaneously, they are numbered in the order in which they were filled. Judges who retire into senior status remain on the bench but leave their seat vacant. That seat
255-404: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title CADC . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CADC&oldid=910050556 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
272-564: Was held up by Senator Al Franken 's refusal to return his blue slip, while Duncan's hearing was held up by Senator John Neely Kennedy 's indecision on his blue slip. Kennedy, however, consented to Duncan receiving a hearing. In February 2019, attorney Eric Miller was confirmed to serve on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals , despite the fact that neither of his two home-state senators ( Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell , both of Washington ) had returned blue slips for him. He
289-454: Was the first federal judicial nominee to be confirmed without support from either of his home-state senators, although other nominees were similarly confirmed to the Courts of Appeals without blue slips later in 2019, including Paul Matey ( Third Circuit , New Jersey ), Joseph F. Bianco and Michael H. Park (both Second Circuit , New York ), and Kenneth K. Lee , Daniel P. Collins , and Daniel Bress (all Ninth Circuit , California ). By
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